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Marketing Tools Worth Investing Your Money in.
When we started looking at and working Affiliate and MLM Internet Opportunities in 1994, we had close to zero
knowledge of 'HOW' to work the programs successfully and with which tools. Today we are a little wiser. Here is a breakdown
of the tools and essential items, needed to run a successful home business. The items are NOT listed in an special order.
Internet Services - Some Free and some with a Fee!
- Kanoodle - Pay-per-click Search engine.
- AdPower Zone - Turn Traffic into Cash (If you don't like our sources).
- I Need Hits.com - FREE Search Engine placement tool (+35 Engines).
- Got that Online - Search Engine PRIORITY Listing Service.
- Search Engine Cloaker - Get more traffic with Search Engine Cloaking!
- Submit Plus - Free Submission to 110 search engines.
- Load Your Wallet - Sell 1,000 optin email leads for just $80.
Hardware and Software
- Dell Computer - We use a Dell Dimension 4100 (Pentium 3, 1GHz) which is 2 years old.
- Printer - Any will do although we recommend Hewlett Packard. The machine is a little pricier, but you will save on the Ink.
- Scanner - Not essential, but very practical for getting 'real' things into an image on the computer.
- Norton's Internet Security - AntiVirus, Firewall, Spam Alert, and Parental Control Software.
- Microsoft Excel - Spreadsheet package for manipulating data and numbers.
- EditPad - We personally don't use HTML Editors and Notepad is 'naff'. This program is free.
- PostMaster - The simplest tool for managing all your downline, emails and responses.
- Internet access, OBVIOUSLY! Broadband is far faster than a modem and we would NEVER go back.
Books for Business at Home and on the Web
- The Richest Man in Babylon - Our financial bible. Simple book!
- HTML Reference - Our first HTML reference.
- HTML for the World Wide Web - Our second HTML reference.
Other Items for Home Business
- A decent sized desk, with some surrounding space. Ideally by a window so you can day-dream.
- A decent chair. Comfortable, but not so much that you can fall asleep.
- A stereo or speakers an a CD player in your computer.
Buying a Domain Name
We presently use 123-Reg Domains to host this site, 'StrikeForceCoop.com' and 'ExactMM.com'.
Extra Traffic
Make sure that you use one or more of the following traffic-generator programs to drive traffic to your gateway websites.
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More Tools being added Weekly!
Here we will try our very best to inform you of services we have used that have been a complete
waste of funds. Examples include MOST paid Banner Advertising. You'll see as we develop this area.
- Refer Central - Banner Advertising 'SFI' brought NO LEADS
- World Submitter - Banner Advertising 'SFI' brought NO LEADS
- EasySignups - Leads are VERY cheap, but you will find that
after the MASSIVE opt-out rate these leads then work out to be expensive. Even the affiliates that you are left
with are of very poor quality. We've never had an upgrade when using these leads.
- StartFrenzy - Although this
program, over a period of time can build a large flow of traffic, buying extra hits is a waste of your pocket
money!
- PaymeNet - We bought 2,000 hits.
What did we earn from it? NOTHING!
- Boon Solutions - We purchased $99.95 worth of services
from them and after 5 emails back and forth to complain that the service was not started we had to request a
full refund after 7.5 weeks! They MAY be worth trying, but we are going to walk away!
- Exploit the Internet - We
bought 6,406 opt-in emails to advertise PrePaidLiving (Exact Marketing Method) to the ETI affiliates (Cost
$6.41). We got ONLY 1 new affiliate.
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